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The students that I am working with are in third grade and their ages ranged from eight to ten. All of the students were very interested in science and they all enjoyed drawing, so it seems like the students really enjoyed the misconception interview. The students came up with some very intelligent and some intriguing answers to our questions. There were three key questions that inspired the most interesting answers. The first question was, have you seen something move today and what do you think caused it to move? The students came up with some great answers for this question. One student said that they saw a flag move by the wind and another one said they saw a tree move by the wind. We also had two answers that we were not expecting at …show more content…

The students came up with some great answers to this question. As a group the students said that you could make an object stop by stepping on it. The example they gave was using a piece of paper and the ground. They used the paper that they were drawing with and was sliding it on the ground. Then they said that one way to make the paper stop moving was to step on it. Carly and I both thought that their answer was very creative. Then one student said that gravity causes objects to stop. This answer shocked both Carly and I because we didn’t think that they would have known what gravity was. The answer to this question was on video 4 at 1 minute 23 seconds to 1 minute 38 …show more content…

We had the students rub their hands together and they noticed that their hands got warmer. One student said their hands got warmer because there was no room for cold air to go through them because they were together. The girl explained that when you hold your hands out to your side there is room for cold air to go through them and then when they are together, there is no room for the air to go through. Another student said that your hands get warmer because they are rubbing against each other. The students then figured out in a group that the faster they rubbed their hands together, the warmer they got. The answer to this question was on video 7 at 43 seconds to 55 seconds and at 1 minute 55 seconds to 2 minutes 13 seconds.
Overall I believe that the interview went extremely well. The only thing that I wish we were able to do is get through all of our questions. We still had two questions left that we didn’t get to ask the students. These questions were about space and gravity and I believe that they would have been very interested in these questions. Even though we weren’t able to get to those questions, the interview still went extremely well. I honestly can’t think of anything that you could have done to support us better for this experience. I feel like Carly and I were well prepared for this

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